I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only uncertainty surrounding the decision is the wording of the accompanying statement and, in particular, whether the assessment that 'some further… — Paul Ashworth Copy Share Image
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently. — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
